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Meet Apple HomeView, a Shared Screen Built to Keep the Whole Home Connected
A phone belongs to one person. A television belongs to the room. Apple HomeView is trying to sit somewhere between the two. Apple’s new 7-inch smart display is designed to be shared by an entire household, but it does not treat everyone in that household the same. HomeView can recognize up to six people by […]
Affinity Labs raises $2M to build software companies with creators
Building an app is becoming easier. Getting people to care about it is not. That is the problem London-based Affinity Labs is building around. The startup has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding, led by Fuel Ventures alongside Antler, with the financing package also including a £497,787 Innovate UK grant. Angel participants include investors and […]
Breaking: Character.ai is under the Chapter 11 bankruptcy system
Character AI, an AI startup that enables people to converse with fictional AI companions, has submitted documents for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Character AI says it intends to conduct a sale of all, or substantially all, of its assets under the Chapter 11 bankruptcy system, […]
SpaceX CRS-35: Final ISS Solar Arrays and Science Cargo Explained
SpaceX’s CRS-35 may look like another routine cargo run to the International Space Station, but the mission connects three different phases of orbital operations at once: reusable transportation, continued ISS modernization and research designed for missions beyond low Earth orbit. SpaceX’s mission plan pairs a Dragon spacecraft flying for the fourth time with a Falcon […]
Mesa School Raises ₹110 Crore for AI-First Business Education
Most education funding rounds are bets on software. Mesa School of Business is a bet on the campus itself. The Bengaluru institution has raised ₹110 crore, comprising roughly ₹85 crore in Series A equity co-led by Dharana Capital and existing investor Elevation Capital, plus ₹25 crore in venture debt from InnoVen Capital and Alteria Capital. […]
Clueso Raises $10M to Turn Business Video Into an Agent-Managed Workflow
Most AI video tools consider the job finished when a video is exported. Clueso is building around what happens afterward: the product changes, the screenshots become outdated, the training library falls behind and someone has to make the video again. The Bengaluru-founded company has raised $10 million in Series A funding, led by Dharana Capital. […]
Microsoft-Decision-1 Splits AI Decisions From Generative Reasoning
Microsoft-Decision-1 is not designed to write, summarize or reason in paragraphs. Its job is narrower: make fast, structured decisions inside AI systems, then return probabilities that software can act on. That distinction matters because modern AI applications increasingly contain many more decisions than generative steps. An agent might use a powerful reasoning model to understand […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into Execution, Security and Physical AI
AI funding this week was less about another race for the biggest model and more about everything required to put advanced intelligence to work. Capital moved into autonomous workflows, AI evaluation, runtime security, observability, developer infrastructure and enterprise data. Outside software, investors backed robotics, quantum computing, neural chips, satellite communications, healthcare infrastructure and agricultural intelligence. […]
Klarent Raises $8M for Agentic Software Testing
AI can now generate software faster than many engineering teams can verify it. Klarent is building for the bottleneck that appears after the code is written: proving that it actually works. The Zurich-based startup has raised $8 million in Seed funding, led by Mosaic Ventures, with participation from Moonfire Ventures and angel investors including former […]
Autentic AI Raises €1.5M to Compress Market Research From Weeks to Days
Traditional qualitative research has a scaling problem: companies want the “why” behind customer behavior, but interviewing enough people can take weeks and require large agency budgets. Barcelona-based Autentic AI has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding from Baobab Ventures, Lanai Ventures, Acurio Ventures and Masia VC to attack that bottleneck with AI. The company plans […]
AI Shopping Agents Can Now Buy for You, but Who Pays When They Make Mistakes?
AI used to be wrong inside a chat box. Now it can be wrong while buying something, sending a message, booking your day or acting inside an account. That changes the cost of a mistake. Recent examples documented by The Wall Street Journal show just how quickly convenience can turn into exposure. Personal AI agents […]
Finches Raises €2M for AI Agricultural Sourcing Intelligence
Knowing that a growing region is getting hotter is not yet a procurement decision. A food manufacturer needs to know whether that heat threatens the specific crop variety it buys, which supplier and contract are exposed, whether quality specifications are likely to become harder to meet and whether there is still time to sample differently, […]